Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

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KungFooBob wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 7:41 pm

Wot no Mahou?

That's the best Spanish beer!
If you ever see Mahou Reserva buy it. It's stronger than Mahou red and is very tasty.
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Yorick wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 7:39 pm
My local sells Amstel at 1.50€
And Estrella at 3.50€
I'd pay the extra for the Estrella.

The best supermarket beer I've found is Mercadona own brand stuff in the red cans. I have an aversion to Lidl and Aldi so have no idea what their stuff is like.
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Just found a 6 pack lurking at back of the patio bar fridge.
It'll be gone by tmrw ;)
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Extra Maduracion!
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 8:34 pm Extra Maduracion!
Really old? I'm terrible at Spanish.
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The Traitors, I loves it.

So I was very excited just now when I discovered they're doing a celebrity version!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2enyjk407o
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My mum, who struggles with Whatsapp, is 82. The other day she sent me some photos I've never seen before of her dad, her grandad, her grandmother, etc. Turns out my niece has been delving into our family tree on Ancestry and found loads of stuff and sent it to me on my mum's phone. Going for dinner on Sunday so will be good to see if she has any more.

Was showing a mate in work. Today he came in with one of his relative's WW1 dog tags (made from leather(?), Pvt. Austen, Honourable Artillery Co., in case you wondered ) plus a war badge with the accompanying letter, even in the original envelope. How cool is that?!

And now another mate has just shown me a a video clip of his mum, who just happens to be in the video to Hey, Jude. She's the young blond with a black bow in her hair when everyone comes in giving it 'Nah, nah, nah'. Camera lingers on her for some time.

It's been an interesting day.
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My commute through the Blackwall Tunnel of late. In terms of traffic, anyway. Being charged smarts a little.

Found this dreadful article online as I searched for the answer to my question: Where the fuck has all the traffic gone?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 27278.html
Approaching the tunnel at 8am is like 3am on Sunday morning: empty. So where is everybody? I can't believe the Silvertown Tunnel has made that much of a difference. No reports of Tower Bridge in gridlock, nor the Dartford Crossing. According to the article the Rotherhithe is ok too.

So...where'd everybody go? :think:
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pigeons sleeping in the sun as they know the neighbourhood cats won’t come in because of our dogs!

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Pigeon for dinner tonight?
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Celebrating the demise of my printer. I'm too cheap to bin a working printer but it's finally stopped working properly.

The old joke: I don't know what machine they're raging against but my guess is that it's a printer
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cheb wrote: Fri May 16, 2025 10:43 am Celebrating the demise of my printer. I'm too cheap to bin a working printer but it's finally stopped working properly.

The old joke: I don't know what machine they're raging against but my guess is that it's a printer
After suffering with a couple of inkjet printers I bought a laser printer in 2006. It's still going strong. If you don't need to print in colour a monochrome laser printer is almost certainly cheaper than several inkjets and a succession of dried up ink cartridges.
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There's another printer in the household and happily it's a networked one so I can use it.
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I've got a Laserjet 2100 and Jetdirect 170X (cos the 2100 only has a Centronics port, no USB) in the loft that I pull out whenever I need to print. The toner in it must be 20 years old.
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cheb wrote: Fri May 16, 2025 10:35 am Pigeon for dinner tonight?
They're my pets! I feed them every day and they tapon the french doors if I'm late! :wtf:
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My dog is pretty much back to his old self, after all the shenanigans of recent weeks 🥰

Even managing to wean him back onto normal dog food (which is Royal bloody Canin), much to his disgust. 😆
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri May 16, 2025 8:11 pm I've got a Laserjet 2100 and Jetdirect 170X (cos the 2100 only has a Centronics port, no USB) in the loft that I pull out whenever I need to print. The toner in it must be 20 years old.
I print stuff at work.
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The only thing I used to print was budget airline boarding passes.

Smartphone apps have done away with that too.
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I say I print stuff at work, I was well annoyed when I had to map a printer.. I'd worked there nearly 3 years at that point.
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I have no idea how to print at work. I've been there a year. Only noticed the printer existed a couple of months back.
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